Politics is the seedy foreplay of governance. All the speeches and absurd campaign promises eventually lead to getting someone elected, and then shit gets real because government officials wield enormous power. Democracy’s great leap... Read More

The Bear / Andrew Krivak / Bellevue Literary Press / Softcover $16.99 (224pp) / 978-1-942658-70-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / The Bear is a dreamy dispatch from the end of the world. In Andrew Krivak’s palimpsest... Read More

What the world doesn’t need is more back cover copy. We’re reminded of this fact every so often when a new book comes along with a title so explicit, so wonderfully self actualized that anything more would be superfluous. So thank... Read More

Elsie / Nadine RobertMaja Kastelic, illustrator / Abrams Books for Young Readers / Hardcover $16.99 (40pp) / 978-1-4197-4072-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Being the youngest of seven, no one takes Elsie’s ideas... Read More

Truth be told, most of us are prickly about our food decisions. We DO NOT like being told what to eat. Even so, we hear the voices in our head whispering about the health, ethical, and environmental consequences of what we consume. It... Read More

Cassandra’s Eye / Elizabeth Gargano / Belle Lutte Press / Softcover $16.00 (298pp) / 978-0-9973260-6-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / An evocative novel set in 1969’s counterculture, Cassandra’s Eye focuses on... Read More

History is a nag. All that moralizing about being condemned to repeat the past if we don’t remember it, when we all know history is a set of agreed-upon lies written by the winners. Not to mention the reason it’s called history and... Read More

The Road to Urbino / Roma Tearne / Gallic Books / Softcover $15.95 (352pp) / 978-1-910709-48-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / The Road to Urbino moves between Sri Lanka, the UK, and Italy, illuminating how each locale... Read More